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1539

Marie Dentière writes an open letter to Marguerite of Navarre, sister of the King of France; the Epistre tres utile, or "very useful letter", calls for an expulsion of Catholic clergy from France.

1565

Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.

1567

October 14 - António Ferreira becomes Desembargador da Casa do Civel and leaves Coimbra for Lisbon.

1571

Michel de Montaigne retires from public life and isolates himself in the tower of the Château de Montaigne.

1572

English law eliminates actors' companies lacking formal patronage, by labelling them "vagabonds".

1575

Sir Philip Sidney meets Penelope Devereaux, the inspiration for his Astrophel and Stella.

1576

James Burbage builds The Theatre, the first permanent public playhouse in London, to open the great age of Elizabethan drama.

1590

A troupe of boy actors, the Children of Paul's, are suppressed because of their playwright John Lyly's role in the Marprelate controversy.

1597

Ben Jonson is briefly jailed in Marshalsea Prison, after the suppression of his play, The Isle of Dogs.

1598

September 22 - Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel; he is convicted of manslaughter and imprisoned in Newgate Prison.

[edit] New books

1501

The Book of Margery Kempe (posthumous)

1503

William Dunbar - The Thrissill and the Rois

1505

Georges Chastellain - Récollections des merveilles advenues en mon temps (posthumous)
Stephen Hawes

- The Passtyme of Pleasure
- The Temple of Glass

1508

William Dunbar - The Goldyn Targe

1509

Erasmus - In Praise of Folly

1512

Henry Medwall - Fulgens and Lucrece
Huldrych Zwingli - De Gestis inter Gallos et Helvetios relatio

1513

First translation of Virgil's Aeneid into English language (Scots dialect) by Gavin Douglas

1514-15

Gian Giorgio Trissino - Sofonisba

1515

Robert Fabyan - The New Chronicles of England and France

1516

Thomas More - Utopia

1517

Francysk Skaryna's Bible translation and printing
Teofilo Folengo's Baldo, a popular Italian work of comedy.

1524

Philippe de Commines - Mémoires (Part 1: Books 1-6); first publication (Paris)

1526

William Tyndale's Bible translation

1527

Hector Boece - Historia Scotorum
Philippe de Commines - Mémoires (Part 2: Books 7-8); first publication

1528

Baltissare Castiglione - The Book of the Courtier

1531

Michael Servetus - De trinitatis erroribus ("On the Errors of the Trinity")

1532

Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
François Rabelais - Pantagruel

1534

Martin Luther's Bible translation
François Rabelais - Gargantua
Polydore Vergil - Historia Anglica

1535

John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners - Huon of Bordeaux

1536

Jean Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion (in Latin)

1538

Hélisenne de Crenne - Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent d'amours

1539

Sir Thomas Elyot - The Castel of Helth

1540

Historia Scotorum of Hector Boece, translated into vernacular Scots by John Bellenden at the special request of James V of Scotland

1541

George Buchanan

- Baptistes
- Jephtha

1542

Paul Fagius - Liber Fidei seu Veritatis
Edward Hall - The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrate Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke

1543

Andreas Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the Fabric of the Human body in Seven Books)
Nicolaus Copernicus - De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres)

1545

Roger Ascham - Toxophilus
Bernard Etxepare - Linguae Vasconum Primitiae

1546

François Rabelais - Le tiers livre

1547

Martynas Mažvydas - The Simple Words of Catechism (first printed book in Lithuanian language)

1549

Johannes Aal - Johannes der Täufer (St. John Baptist)

1550

Martin Bucer - De regno Christi

1552

François Rabelais - Le quart livre
Gerónimo de Santa Fe - Hebræomastix (posthumous)
Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians), composed in Nahuatl by Martín de la Cruz and translated into Latin by Juan Badiano.

1553

Francesco Patrizi - La Città felice ("The Happy City")

1554

anon - Lazarillo de Tormes

1559

The Elizabethan version of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, which remained in use until the mid-17th century and was the first English Prayer Book in America.
Jorge de Montemayor - Diana

1560

Jacques Grévin - Jules César
William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson - Geneva Bible

1562

William Bullein - Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes

1563

John Foxe - Foxe's Book of Martyrs

1564

John Dee - Monas Hieroglyphica

1565

Camillo Porzio - La Congiura dei baroni

1567

Joan Perez de Lazarraga - Silbero, Silbia, Doristeo, and Sirena (MS in Basque language)

1569

Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga - La Araucana, part 1

1571

François de Belleforest - La Pyrénée (or La Pastorale amoureuse) (the first French "pastoral novel")

1572

Friedrich Risner - Opticae thesaurus

1576

Jean Boudin - Six livres de la République
George Pettie - A Petite Palace of Pettie His Pleasure

1577

Richard Eden - The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies
Thomas Hill - The Gardener's Labyrinth
Raphael Holinshed - The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Irelande

1578

George Best - A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discoverie…under the Conduct of Martin Frobisher
John Florio - First Fruits
Jaroš Griemiller - Rosarium philosophorum
Gabriel Harvey - Smithus, vel Musarum lachrymae
John Lyly - Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit

1579

Stephen Gosson - The Schoole of Abuse
Thomas Lodge - Honest Excuses

1582

George Buchanan - Rerum Scoticarum Historia
Richard Hakluyt - Divers Voyages

1583

Philip Stubbes - The Anatomy of Abuses

1584

Reginald Scot - The Discovery of Witchcraft

1585

Miguel de Cervantes - La Galatea

1586

John Knox - Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realms of Scotland
John Lyly - Pappe with an hatchet, alias a figge for my Godsonne
George Puttenham (attr.) - The Arte of English Poesie
Luis Barahona de Soto - Primera parte de la Angélica

1588